Image collection: Sumner

This is a sample of photographs of Sumner. You can search the catalogue for more or browse the collections.

An early picture of Sumner [ca. 1860]	Cave Rock with the mast and yard-arm used to signal the state of the Sumner Bar tides [ca. 1865]	View of the road past the Sumner hotel and the store, towards the Clifton Spur, Christchurch [ca. 1865]
Small boat and dinghy beached near Cave Rock, Sumner, Christchurch [ca. 1865]	Looking down the Sumner Road to the east towards Sumner store and hotel from Clifton Spur [ca. 1865]	Ships anchored off Shag Rock and the Clifton Spur, past the Sumner Road, Christchurch [ca. 1865]
Construction of the Sumner Pier, Christchurch looking from Cave Rock past the Sumner Hotel to Clifton Spur and Shag Rock [ca. 1883]	Sumner beach, Clifton Spur and Roger's boarding-house [ca. 1888]	Cyclist beside penny-farthing bicycle near Shag Rock on the Sumner road, Christchurch [ca. 1896]
Sumner beach, Christchurch [ca. 1900]	Sumner in 1900, already a favourite holiday resort	Sumner beach, Christchurch [ca. 1905]
A Kitson steam tram departs from Cave Rock, Sumner [ca. 1907]	A view from the Richmond Hill Golf Links at Sumner looking across to Cave Rock and the Sumner Pier [1910]	The streets of Sumner [ca. 1915]
Lifesaving demonstration, Sumner, Christchurch, 1926	An electric tram crosses the Ferry Bridge over the Heathcote River on the road to Sumner, Christchurch	Yachting at Sumner
Clock Tower - Sumner	Sumner Beach - evening